Articles in ‘Money & Finance’

*Authored by Matthew Piepenberg via VonGreyerz.gold,* On Friday, January 30, 2026, the world learned (or rediscovered) just how grotesquely **rigged the paper gold and silver markets** truly are. **The Great (Yet Familiar) Fall** Despite no change whatsoever in global supply and demand forces, silver went from a $120 near-high on Thursday to a $78 low on Friday, marking this as the largest single-day crash (35%) in the silver market in…

*Alex Krainer* Only two weeks ago the TrendCompass report headline read, “Silver breaks to new all time highs.” The opening paragraph: “On Friday, 9 January COMEX silver futures closed at $79.34/tr.oz., slightly below the all-time high reached three days prior. Then this morning, with the silver price chart looking almost vertical, silver opened gap up, more than $4 higher than Friday’s close and is now trading at around $84.50/tr.oz.” …

Central banks have been buying bullion at a record clip because holding dollars has become a losing proposition In the German writer Ernst Junger’s macabre vignette ‘Violet Endives’, a man walks into a gourmet shop where the salesman speaks in matter-of-fact fashion about the delicacies on display – human flesh – and embarks upon a long explanation about the art of preparation. The story is a commentary on a society that accepts the…

*Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance* **Silver was up another 6% Wednesday morning this past week and traded at $91 an ounce. Whether or not we’re seeing a short squeeze or a blow-off top at this point is moot and irrelevant. To quote the dorky guy from *10 Things I Hate About You,*“the sh\*t hath hitteth the faneth”.** As I said about a week ago on a Twitter Spaces that I did with my friend Peter Schiff, I just had the feeling that the…

I’ve been analyzing this for the last 6 hours and this is VERY BAD. World silver production: ~800M ounces, BofA & Citi shorts: 4.4 BILLION. I’ve spent two decades in macro, and I thought I had seen it all. I WAS WRONG! *By No Limits* Here’s what I uncovered: ### What you’re looking at isn't just a large short position. It’s a solvency event for the entire commodities complex. Let’s break down the technicals of why BofA being short 1B…

Michelle Makori, President & Editor-in-Chief, Miles Franklin Media, sits down with Vince Lanci, Publisher of GoldFix and Professor of Finance, to break down a major shift underway in the global monetary system. BRICS nations have launched a pilot for a new gold-backed settlement instrument known as “the Unit” – a wholesale mechanism designed to settle cross-border trade outside the U.S. dollar and the SWIFT system. While still early, the move…

After a difficult 2025 marked by recession and slow activity, New Zealand’s economy is showing broad signs of stabilisation and budding recovery — not just in isolated sectors, but across the board, according to KiwiBank’s latest economic outlook. 📉 KiwiBank Economic Commentary — 13 November 2025 Interest Rates Have Reached Supportive Levels ### Economists at KiwiBank highlight that interest rates are now much lower than they were this…

The World Bank has long defined corruption as the abuse of public office for private gain. Transparency International defines it as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. Many commentators and politicians are shying away from referring to the current scandal engulfing our police as corruption. Regardless of what label we apply to this behaviour, dishonest conduct by powerful people carries broader societal implications. A number of…